Author archives

Miscellaneously related activities

www.digitalviolence.org/#/ – violating human rights by nation states? a documenting project. www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2019/dec/25/we-never-chose-this-refugees-use-art-to-imagine-a-better-world-in-pictures thecomfreyproject.org.uk/about-us/ – offering a safe cultural setting for people who fled persecution and found a refuge in england’s north-east. (the project did a show at the baltic art centre – baltic.art/making-connections ) Empowerment and connection: ARTconnects cultivate the creative talents of refugee women …

Refuge and Art projects

Humans in need of refuge – texts, ideas, organisations and initiatives. Planetary art27.art/ – a platform for art and culture oriented activities. (currently seems western only, however – it can include other locations. I think..) www.artforrefugees.org/ – a project to help refugees worldwide in finding their voices. www.walkwithamal.org/ – Walk with Amal, a refugee doll. …

About refugees between britain and europe

www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/behind-the-housing-crisis-for-asylum-seekers-in-france www.hrw.org/news/2021/09/10/uks-unlawful-cruelty-english-channel – from Human Rights Watch, about contemporary treatment of refugees in the channel between the UK and Europe.

Art and Artists residencies on the water

Please note the list is neither exhaustive nor bound by the title.. Art and Artists are used because if it was “reflective thinking and imagining practices”, my guess is that readers will go: WTF?!?! theboatstudio.org/about-us/ – a boat studio oriented artists residencies. www.hosekcontemporary.com/residency – a ship as a contemporary art space in berlin. lv21.co.uk/ – …

a boat tour at sea

a call – notes

Dufourmantelle – A Space switcher. Notes: Land areas that delineate borders and their lines via water bodies, are being switched and inverted.* Therefore sea comes here as a space and place of hope. A hope through passing and through the very living with and on the water.** Water masses offer spaces of difference from land …

a personal note

Dufourmantelle is one of a few projects, I a single human attends to. There’s a currently a fair bit of work to do on the site – hence it is a bit empty. I have written a fair bit of notes that need to be made readable. I went through learning to sail the boat …